Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I eat quite a lot of spuds, but still struggle to get through a 2.5Kg bag (cheapest bulk I buy) before they sprout and go soft.

Storage conditions? If you get those right, over colder months, it shouldn't be a rush.

vivatifosi

Anyone else watching the athletics? I think we know (barring a real mess up) who will win the 4x100m relay now. 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th places and all under 10secs in driving rain. Brilliant.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Or if you don't have a freezer as you can just buy the meal and cook it that day...

I buy oven chips when I know I can take them home and eat them OK for the next 3 days. Once cooked they're OK in plastic tubs in the fridge to be nuked for another 1-2 days too.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Storage conditions? If you get those right, over colder months, it shouldn't be a rush.

Getting those right requires practice and trialling ... and I don't get through enough to take notes. I probably get through five 2.5Kg bags a year as I don't always have them in.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

Anyone else watching the athletics? I think we know (barring a real mess up) who will win the 4x100m relay now. 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th places and all under 10secs in driving rain. Brilliant.

And that without Blake and Powell - there must be something in that Jamaican cooking....

When it comes to oven ships we have them about once a month but prefer the thin ones form Sains - much more than the lidl ones PN raves about but I find in the oven the thin ones come out most chip like. We also probably have another 'frozen potato product' - wedges, waffles or rosti about once a month, I know it is 'cheating' but life is too short.

Funnily enough the cheese we buy 'grated mild cheddar' at Sains is cheaper per kilo than the some cheese but not grated - perhaps it is the potato starch making it cheaper.

They always seem a miserable bunch at Viva's local big Tesco, I prefer our nearest big store where still a couple of years later they let me use their £15 off £80 vouchers that come with a club card mailing to buy a few bits plus an expensive electrical item and then return the electrical item at the electrical CS desk and they don't reclaim the voucher.

We tend to buy the 5kg of washed potatoes, I know the sacks are cheaper but there is just too much mess in scrubbing/peeling them (wow, did I just say that?!) Also the bigger sacks just grow eyes too quickly at certain times of year.

We have a new Spanish student, Anna, 33 from Barcelona. Seems very nice, good English, not the most fragrant....

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We have a new Spanish student, Anna, 33 from Barcelona. Seems very nice, good English, not the most fragrant....

I always assumed your Spanish students were nubile slips of girls.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe they came across the roof?

I doubt it - 7 stories high, and each storey is 11-13 feet.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

And that without Blake and Powell - there must be something in that Jamaican cooking.

We have a new Spanish student, Anna, 33 from Barcelona. Seems very nice, good English, not the most fragrant....

Donovan Bailey was on tv earlier. I didn't realise he grew up in Jamaica and presumably went through the system there too.. Yet another Sprint champ. I think the school athletics system there is brilliant. What I don't understand is why in this country our best sprinters have gone from being of Caribbean origin (Linford, Colin Jackson, John Regis, Dwain....) to of African origin. Any ideas? Are the kids who are good at sports going into other more lucrative ones instead?

In terms of your new student, does she consider herself Spanish, Catalan or both? I have Catalan friends and they really want to be independent and are rooting for Gib at the moment. Hence question if not impertinent to ask.

And I hate that big Tesco. Every time I go I wonder why I am there and not Sainsburys.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sainsburys.

I think its possibly an issue of where I live, but Sainsbury's are unsatisfactory here, which is a shame.

Tmi warning coming up.

Sainsbury's used to be particularly good for cotton knickers, not too plain, not to fancy, ideal for slouchy days or....chocolate and rare steak weeks. In recent months I keep piping in thinking I could do with some new ones of these, because they are the sort of thing one never wants to run low on, and they have no such cotton panties, only horrid slimy synthetic ones boasting no VPL. Eventually I'll give up, trek back to Bath, or the city in the direction of pn and sort of Spirit and get more expensive and less nice ones than sainsburies used to do from m and s I suppose.

lostinrates

Anyone driven a Volvo c30? Any opinions?